CHAPTER CCCCLXXXIX. An ACT for the formation of the County of Trigg out of the Counties of Christian and Caldwell. Approved January 27, 1820.
SECTION 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That from and after the first day of April next, all that part of said counties of Christian and Caldwell contained in the following boundary, to wit: Beginning at a point ten miles due west from the most westwardly limits of the town of Hopkinsville; thence southwardly to Lindsay’s mill on Little river; thence due south to the Tennessee state line; thence west with said line to the Tennessee river; thence down the same to the mouth of a creek on which Levi Davis now lives; thence up said creek, leaving said Davis in Caldwell county; thence to the mouth of Crooked creek, so as to leave the inhabitants of said creek in the proposed county, except David Osburn, Esq.; thence towards Simon Shetford’s horse-mill to the Christian county line, so as to leave the inhabitants of Hurricane creek in Caldwell county; thence with the present Caldwell line and Christian line to a point on said line within two miles of Colley’s horse mill; thence from said two mile point south sixty east, to intersect a line running north from the ten mile point; thence south to the beginning; shall be one distinct county, called and known by the name of Trigg, in honor of Colonel Stephen Trigg, who gallantly fell in the service of his country at the battle of the Lower Blue Licks, on the nineteenth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two.
SECTION 2. The said county of Trigg shall be entitled to nine justices of the peace, who shall be appointed and commissioned as in other cases, who shall meet at the dwelling house of Samuel Orr in the town of Warrington in said county, on the third Monday in May next; and after taking the necessary oaths of office and qualifying their sheriff agreeably to the constitution of the United States and of this state as required by law, they shall proceed to elect and qualify a clerk, to whose permanent appointment, it shall be necessary for a majority of all the justices in commission for said county to concur; but if such majority cannot be obtained in favor of any one, then said court shall appoint a clerk pro tempore.
SECTION 3. The county court for said county, shall hold their first term on the third Monday in May next, and on the third in each Month thereafter, except the months in which the circuit courts for said county shall be holden; and the circuit courts for said county shall commence on the third Monday in May, August and November in each year, and may, if necessary, continue six judicial days; and said county shall form a part of the seventh judicial district.
SECTION 4. The circuit and county court, and justices of the peace in Christian and Caldwell counties, shall have jurisdiction over all matters instituted prior to the commencement of this act; and it shall be lawful for all sheriffs, collectors and constables in said Christian and Caldwell counties, to collect all fines and monies, and to execute all writs, executions and other process as the law directs, which are put in their hands previous to the commencement of this act; and shall account for, and return the same as if this act had not passed.
SECTION 5. The county court of said county of Trigg, shall appoint commissioners of the tax in said county for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, who shall perform the duties and be governed by the laws regulating commissioners of the tax in this state; and the clerk and other officers of said county, shall in like manner perform their duties in relation thereto; and said county court shall also, as soon as practicable, after the place for the permanent seat of justice for said county shall have been fixed upon, by commissioners as hereinafter mentioned, proceed to cause the erection of all necessary public buildings thereupon for said county of Trigg, and lay off and establish a town there, and do and perform every other matter in relation thereto, that county courts are by law authorized to do in this state.
SECTION 6. The place for the permanent seat of justice for said county of Trigg, shall be fixed upon by five commissioners, to wit: Thomas Champion of Caldwell county; Dixon Given and William Thompson of Livingston county; and Benjamin Vance and Leander J. Sharp of Warren county; who shall meet at the house of Samuel Orr in the town of Warrington in said county of Trigg, on the third Monday in May next; and thence proceed to select and point out an eligible place for the permanent seat of justice for said county; and the said commissioners are hereby enjoined to pay a just regard to the most central, convenient and eligible site for that purpose, and make report thereof to the county court of the said county of Trigg; but should said commissioners or a majority of them, fail to meet on the day herein mentioned for that purpose, they are hereby authorized and required still to meet at said place herein appointed, and proceed to perform all the duties herein required of them as soon as practicable thereafter, a majority or any three of whom, are hereby authorized to act and perform all the duties herein required; and each of the said commissioners attending on the performance of their said duties herein mentioned, shall receive for their services, three dollars per day while necessarily absent from home attending on said business, to be levied and paid out of the first county levy laid for said county.
SECTION 7. The surveyors of the counties of Christian and Caldwell, are authorized and required to meet at the beginning corner of said county of Trigg, on the fifteenth day of April next, thence proceed to lay off, run and plainly mark all the lines of the said county of Trigg, which have not heretofore been run and marked, and return a report thereof stating as nearly as practicable the centre (sic) of said county to the county court of Trigg; for which services said surveyors shall receive three dollars per day each while they are necessarily engaged therein, besides a reasonable allowance for the implements, chain carriers and markers, to be allowed and paid out of the first levy to be laid for said county.
SECTION 8. BE it further enacted, That the commissioners aforesaid, shall have power to receive donations, or to purchase lands not exceeding fifty acres, for the use of the county; and they shall take bond and security in either case payable to the county court, for the use and benefit of the county, which bonds shall be considered valid, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
SECTION 9. BE it further enacted, That so soon as the commissioners appointed to fix upon a place for the permanent seat of justice for said county, and the county of Todd shall have done so, and made report thereof to the county courts of said counties respectively, it shall then be the duty of the county courts thereof to adjourn to the place so fixed upon for said permanent seat of justice for said counties, or to some convenient house as near thereto as can be had, which shall thereafter be the place for holding the county and circuit courts, and elections for said counties until the public buildings shall be ready for their reception, after which they shall be held in the public buildings erected for that purpose in each county.
SECTION 10. The place for holding elections in said county of Trigg, shall hereafter be at the place of holding courts in said county; and the sheriff shall meet and compare the polls in the town of Hopkinsville, as now directed by law.
REF: “Acts of the Kentucky General Assembly”, 1818, pages 853-856. |
